Motivational Quotes

Politics

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Politics

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich